The scale of the universe

[barrabus]

This is interesting...

The scale of the universe

 

[martinm]

very impressive, but ignores the multiverse.....

 

[Rob]

... and GB 

 

[Fulk]

This is interesting...

Yes . . . thanks  for drawing our attention to it; plus I learnt a new word 'yoctometer' (yoctometre?), though heaven knows when I'll ever get to use it (maybe to describe Mendip caves :tease

 

[Les W]

This is interesting...

Yes . . . thanks  for drawing our attention to it; plus I learnt a new word 'yoctometer' (yoctometre?), though heaven knows when I'll ever get to use it (maybe to describe Mendip caves :tease

Oy!

:ras:

 

[Speleofish]

It also works as a confidence manager. Scroll left to feel less important, scroll right if you're feeling insignificant

 

[Maggot]

They missed the centre out

 

[tony from suffolk]

very impressive, but ignores the multiverse.....

?... Or down the back of our sofa.

 

[martinm]

very impressive, but ignores the multiverse.....

?... Or down the back of our sofa.

Lol, the multiverse (assuming you don't know) is the concept of multiple universes (like ours but slightly different) co-existing but on different timelines... (Yes, I read 'New Scientist' magazine occasionally!)

Regards, Mel.

 

[SpeleoTrog]

There's only one proper lesson on the scale of the universe!

Monty python - The Universe song which also goes under the name of The Galaxy song

 

[martinm]

hahaha! Can't believe I'm a Monty Python fan and don't remember that! :-[ I think prof. Brian Cox might have a slightly different (updated) view of things though, lol. 

 

[owd git]

Prof' Brian Cox is actually a particle physicist, not an astro'. producers like his teeth and cheesy persona though.  :yucky:
O. G.

 

[Fulk]

Prof' Brian Cox is actually a particle physicist, not an astro'. producers like his teeth and cheesy persona though. 
O. G.

Anybody who can 'bring science to the masses' gets my approval.

 

[Mr Fell]

Science ain't cracked this yet! No M theory. We don't know what is out there or how we came about. Say what you like - but there is no proof yet.

 

[owd git]

Prof' Brian Cox is actually a particle physicist, not an astro'. producers like his teeth and cheesy persona though. 
O. G.

Anybody who can 'bring science to the masses' gets my approval.

Yep.  but i don't like his giving other peeps hard toil as his own. and not doing 'his shift'.
That's all 
O. G.

 

[shortscotsman]

Regarding Brian Cox, it would be pretty much impossible to be expert in all the areas that get covered in the TV programs.

He gets used a lot including areas outside his speciality because he is very good.  Its a difficult skill explaining hard science in an accessable way and most scientists are very poor at this.  He was very interested in public engagement with science starting when he was a graduate student and spent a lot of his time during his early careeer doing this when most of his peers were focused on research.

 

[owd git]

Yup,fair doos
could be jealousy, as my fame is so insignificant in juxtaposition 
Sad O. G.
(but a famous Hen Racer )

 

[graham]

Science ain't cracked this yet! No M theory. We don't know what is out there or how we came about. Say what you like - but there is no proof yet.

"Proof" is a term used by mathematicians, not scientists. Science has cracked a hell of a lot of things, using "evidence" and its models (AKA "theories") get better and better all the time, but no scientist worth his salt thinks that they will ever know everything about everything.

 

[Alex]

Sciance answers questions with more questions so Graham is right no one will ever know everything only that there will be more unknowns :-\

 

[Marshall]

?The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.?
― Mahatma Gandhi